What is transcultural in Buddhism?
5 min readNov 23, 2020
How much of Buddha’s teaching is a local phenomenon, tied to India’s culture and beliefs during Buddha’s time, and how much of it is universal and transcultural, applicable to all of us?
Buddha taught that nothing has an independent existence. The central tenet of Buddhism is Dependent Origination (Pratītyasamutpāda), which means everything arises (or disappears) together with other things. Note that…
